May 17 Fri | 7.30pm

Studio

SHIBARI

by Gary Duggan

With a talk with playwright Gary Duggan after the reading

A staged reading | directed by Rachel West |
with Ciara Goss, Mary Kelly, Ben Porter Lewis, Claudia Schwartz, Jon Smith and Yusuke Yamasaki

In Dublin city, people are more connected than you think. It will only take something small for six lives to become entwined. A bookshop employee. A restaurant manager. An English movie star. A sales team leader. A journalist. A Japanese florist. What binds them together? Relationships are strained, snapped and formed in this modern-day look at life in a multi-cultural Dublin.

Gary Duggan won the Stewart Parker Trust Award 2006 for his first play, Monged.  His other plays include Dedalus Lounge, Mission, Trans-Europa Express and Neuropolis. Much of this work has toured throughout Ireland and performed internationally in the UK, Romania and New York. Gary has collaborated with director Louise Lowe on two site-specific shows: Rockpaperscissors and Basin. Gary also writes for film and television. He created Happyslapper, a web drama for RTE and has co-written a major four-part mini-series, Amber, which has sold to multiple territories throughout the world.